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Oct 26, 2015

Version 2.2 of the License List Released

SPDX License List: The year in review by Jilayne Lovejoy, Legal team Co-Chair Version 2.2 of the SPDX License List is now available and it seemed like a good opportunity to provide a summary of updates that have occurred over the last few releases and other related news. In case…

Oct 15, 2015

See what Eric Raymond had to say about SPDX

See what Eric had to say about SPDX and the use of the SPDX License Identifier in your source code: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6867

Sep 28, 2015

Supply Chain Mini Summit at LinuxCon Europe on 8 October

The Supply Chain Mini-Summit aims to bring together researchers, implementers and assurance professionals from supply chain, license compliance and security domains to explore ways we can improve the automation of information to create a more efficient and accountable software supply chain.   We will be looking at ways to make…

Sep 28, 2015

Our own Jilayne Lovejoy will be speaking at LinuxCon Europe

Jilayne will be giving a talk at LinuxCon Europe entitled "Developers Care About the License: Using SPDX to Describe License Information". Adoption of open source software is dependent on being able to communicate license information. With some of the open source packages and distributions containing hundreds of contributions and a wide…